Journal of Applied Sciences

About Journal of Applied Sciences

Journal of Applied Sciences: Journal Profile

The Journal of Applied Sciences is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed research journal published since 2001 by the Asian Network for Scientific Information, the Pakistani scholarly publishing house that operates the Science Alert platform (scialert.net). It carries original research across the applied sciences — agriculture and biological sciences, environmental and earth sciences, engineering and technology, physical and chemical sciences, and applied health and medical topics — and it is one of the longest-running titles in the Science Alert catalogue. Accurate identification matters for this journal more than for most, because its plain descriptive title is shared, in whole or in part, by several unrelated periodicals. The journal documented here is the one identified by print ISSN 1812-5654 and online ISSN 1812-5662, published from Pakistan by the Asian Network for Scientific Information. It is not the Swiss open-access journal Applied Sciences published by MDPI (ISSN 2076-3417), it is not the American Journal of Applied Sciences issued by Science Publications, and it is not the Journal of Applied Science and Engineering published by Tamkang University in Taiwan. Authors, librarians and bibliometricians should always check the ISSN before assuming that a reference, an indexing claim or an acceptance letter concerns this journal rather than one of its namesakes.

At a Glance

• Title: Journal of Applied Sciences
• Publisher: Asian Network for Scientific Information (ANSInet), operating the Science Alert platform, Pakistan
• ISSN: 1812-5654 (print) and 1812-5662 (online)
• Published since: 2001
• Field: Multidisciplinary applied sciences
• Language: English
• Access model: Journal articles published through the Science Alert platform; authors should consult the publisher's site for the current access and fee arrangements, which are set by the publisher and may change
• Submissions: Online, through the Science Alert submission system, for registered users

Publisher and Background

The Asian Network for Scientific Information is a scholarly publisher based in Faisalabad, Pakistan, which built a large catalogue of English-language science journals from the early 2000s onwards under the Science Alert brand. Its journals were among the first from the region to be produced and distributed primarily online, at a time when many South Asian and Middle Eastern research communities had limited access to the established Western publishing platforms, and the network grew by offering researchers in Asia, Africa and the Middle East a rapid route to an international-looking journal record. The Journal of Applied Sciences, launched in 2001, was positioned as the network's broad-spectrum flagship for applied research: rather than serving a single discipline, it accepts work from across the applied sciences, in the tradition of general-science periodicals. The journal has been published continuously since its first volume, and its archive on the Science Alert website spans more than two decades of articles.

The publisher's model is author-facing and web-based. Manuscripts are submitted through the Science Alert online submission system, which requires the submitting author to hold a registered Science Alert account; the publisher's official guidance for this journal states that submissions by anyone other than one of the authors are not accepted, that the submitting author takes responsibility for the paper during submission and peer review, and that text files should be supplied as Microsoft Word or rich-text documents with figures as JPEG, GIF, TIFF or EPS files. The same guidance asks authors to include a completed cover letter with the submission text, warning that papers are returned to authors when the cover letter is missing, and it directs authors who cannot use the online system to contact the editorial office by email for help. These operational details, taken from the publisher's own Guide to Authors pages for ISSN 1812-5654, are the most reliable starting point for anyone preparing a submission, and they should be re-checked on the live site before submitting, because the publisher updates its procedures without separate announcement.

Scope and Subject Coverage

As its title promises, the journal's scope is deliberately general: it publishes original research in which scientific method is applied to practical problems, across the natural and physical sciences and their applications. The article mix visible in its recent issues illustrates the breadth in practice. A single recent listing from the journal's home page places a study of polymerisation kinetics measured by ultrasonic velocity in methyl methacrylate systems alongside a clinical assessment of lipid profiles, thyroxine and uric acid in patients with type 2 diabetes in Taiz, Yemen; a multi-year assessment of bacterial contamination on hand-sanitiser dispensers at a community college in New York; a study of bacteria recovered from laboratory computer mice as digital fomites; and a machine-learning analysis of PET-scan imaging for Alzheimer's disease biomarkers built in MATLAB. Polymer chemistry, clinical biochemistry, environmental microbiology, public-health hygiene and computational medical imaging would rarely share an issue in a disciplinary journal; in the Journal of Applied Sciences that juxtaposition is the point. Historically its volumes have been especially rich in agricultural and biological research from Asian and African institutions — crop science, animal science, food science, soil and water studies — reflecting the research profile of the region in which the publisher sits, together with environmental science, materials and energy studies, biotechnology, and applied mathematics and computing.

Because the journal is multidisciplinary, subject fit is rarely the obstacle for authors; the editorial questions are instead whether a manuscript reports a complete, methodologically sound applied study and whether it is presented clearly in English. The journal publishes research articles presenting new data and analysis; authors considering review articles or purely theoretical work should check the journal's current guidance on the Science Alert site, since article-type policies are set by the publisher and have varied across the network's titles.

Indexing, Visibility and a Necessary Caution

During its earlier years the Journal of Applied Sciences achieved coverage in major bibliographic services, and Scopus source lists from that period include the title; coverage of long-running regional journals in the commercial indexes has, however, changed over time for many Science Alert titles, and during the preparation of this profile the journal's current, active indexing status could not be verified from an authoritative registry entry that we were able to inspect directly. That uncertainty is stated openly here rather than filled in with a claim: a current Scopus, Web of Science or other index listing for ISSN 1812-5654 is a fact that is not publicly confirmed in the sources used for this profile, and any author whose institution, funder or promotion committee requires publication in an indexed journal should verify the title's status in the Scopus source list or the relevant index before submitting, using the ISSN rather than the title, precisely because several similarly named journals exist and some of them — notably MDPI's Applied Sciences — do carry current Scopus and Web of Science coverage that must not be transferred, even by implication, to this journal. Articles in the Journal of Applied Sciences are individually discoverable through the publisher's own platform, which presents each paper with abstract, PDF full text, citation data, XML and reference lists, and through general scholarly search engines that crawl the Science Alert site.

A related caution concerns metrics. Third-party websites publish impact-factor-style numbers for almost every journal title in existence, frequently generated from incomplete citation data and frequently confusing this journal with its namesakes; the figures circulating for "Journal of Applied Sciences" on such sites should not be relied on for evaluation purposes, and no official Journal Citation Reports impact factor for this title is claimed in this profile. Where a metric cannot be traced to the index that supposedly produced it, the honest position — and the one this profile takes — is to leave the metric unstated and to direct readers to the primary registries.

A Note on the Record: Publisher Identification

Readers comparing this profile with other directory listings, including earlier versions of this Journals World record, may find the journal attributed to the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). That attribution does not match the journal identified by the ISSNs on this record. MDPI publishes a journal called Applied Sciences — with the word "Journal" absent from its title — from Basel, Switzerland, under ISSN 2076-3417, launched in 2011; it is a different periodical with a different publisher, a different archive and a different editorial structure, and Journals World holds a separate record for it. The Journal of Applied Sciences under ISSN 1812-5654 and 1812-5662 is the Asian Network for Scientific Information title published through Science Alert, as the publisher's own journal pages for this ISSN confirm. The confusion is understandable — aggregators frequently merge or cross-wire similarly named titles, and the error then propagates from one directory to the next — but for citation, submission and evaluation purposes the ISSN pair is decisive: 1812-5654 and 1812-5662 belong to the Science Alert journal documented here. This discrepancy in the stored publisher field has been flagged for correction in the Journals World review process; the profile text follows the publisher's own identification of its journal.

Regional Significance and Authorship

The journal's two decades of publication coincide with a period of rapid growth in research output from universities across Pakistan, the wider Asian region, the Middle East and Africa, and its archive reflects that geography. For many research groups in institutions that were building laboratory capacity and publication records during the 2000s and 2010s, internationally formatted English-language journals published within the region offered an attainable first venue, and the Science Alert catalogue — with the Journal of Applied Sciences as one of its most general titles — absorbed a large volume of that work. The consequence for readers today is that the journal's back run is a genuinely useful primary record of applied research from those communities: studies of local crop varieties, regional water and soil conditions, indigenous medicinal plants, small-scale industrial processes and locally prevalent disease patterns appear in its pages in numbers that the large Western multidisciplinary journals of the same years did not match. Researchers conducting systematic reviews on regionally specific topics — a cultivar, a watershed, a local manufacturing process, a pattern of disease in a particular Yemeni or Pakistani population — may find relevant primary data here that exists nowhere else in the indexed literature, which is a reason to search the archive directly on the publisher's platform rather than relying solely on the commercial citation indexes.

Disambiguation: Similarly Named Journals

Because confusion between titles is the single largest source of error in records for this journal, the principal namesakes are set out explicitly here. Applied Sciences (MDPI, Basel, ISSN 2076-3417, from 2011) is a large open-access journal in the applied natural sciences; it is the title most often confused with this one, and the confusion runs in both directions — citations and directory entries intended for the MDPI journal are sometimes attached to the Science Alert title and the other way around. The American Journal of Applied Sciences (Science Publications, ISSN 1546-9239) is a separate United States-published title. The Journal of Applied Science and Engineering is published by Tamkang University in Taiwan and is indexed in its own right. The Asian Journal of Applied Sciences and the Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences are further distinct regional titles, the latter also published through a Pakistan-based network. None of these journals shares a publisher, an editorial office or an archive with the Journal of Applied Sciences of ISSN 1812-5654, and no indexing status, metric or reputation belonging to any of them transfers to it. In reference lists, the safest practice is to include the ISSN whenever a database or style permits it; in correspondence with the publisher, quoting the ISSN identifies the correct editorial office immediately.

Evaluating This Journal: Guidance for Institutions

Librarians, research managers and promotion committees encountering this title in a curriculum vitae or a thesis bibliography should evaluate it on verified facts rather than on the claims of third-party websites. The verifiable facts are these: it is a real, continuously published journal with a two-decade archive, produced by an identifiable publisher with a public platform; its papers are individually paginated, abstracted and downloadable; and its earlier volumes achieved coverage in major indexing services, even though its present index status requires direct verification, as explained above. Committees should check the specific article's presence in the journal's own archive, confirm the ISSN on the article itself, and, where indexed publication is a formal requirement, consult the current source list of the index concerned rather than screenshots or certificates supplied by intermediaries. That procedure — neither inflating the journal's standing with borrowed metrics nor dismissing its genuine archive — is the evaluation this profile recommends, and it is the standard the profile itself has followed in separating what could be verified from what could not.

Publishing in the Journal: Practical Guidance

Authors who decide that the journal fits their work should follow the publisher's procedure exactly. Register for a Science Alert account, prepare the manuscript as a Word or rich-text file with figures in one of the accepted image formats, include the completed cover letter the publisher requires, and submit through the online system, which allows authors to track the paper's progress through review. Only an author may submit; third-party submissions are not accepted. Before submitting, prudent authors will also do the diligence described above: confirm by ISSN that this is the journal they intend, check its current indexing position in the primary registries if indexed status matters to them, read several recent articles in their subject area to calibrate scope and presentation, and confirm the publisher's current fee and licensing arrangements on the official site, since those terms are set by the publisher and are not restated here. Authors should likewise be alert to unsolicited invitations from unrelated titles trading on similar names; the genuine submission route is the Science Alert system reached from the journal's own pages at scialert.net under ISSN 1812-5654.

Article Presentation and Platform Features

Articles on the Science Alert platform follow a uniform presentation that has been stable across the network's titles: each paper has a dedicated page carrying its title, authors and affiliations, abstract and keywords, and links to the PDF full text, the citation record, an XML version and the reference list. That structure makes individual papers straightforward to cite and to harvest for bibliographies, and it means the journal's archive can be browsed by volume and issue as well as searched. Authors preparing manuscripts should note that the publisher's formatting expectations are correspondingly standardised across the network: structured abstracts, clearly headed sections and numbered references are the norm in published papers, and the Guide to Authors for this journal, rather than the instructions of any other publisher's similarly named title, is the document that governs file formats and submission mechanics. Checking a current issue's articles in the author's own subfield remains the most reliable way to match the journal's presentation conventions before submitting.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the same journal as MDPI's Applied Sciences? No. MDPI's Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417, Basel, since 2011) is a separate journal. This profile documents the Journal of Applied Sciences published by the Asian Network for Scientific Information through Science Alert, ISSN 1812-5654 (print) and 1812-5662 (online), since 2001.

Who publishes the Journal of Applied Sciences? The Asian Network for Scientific Information (ANSInet), a scholarly publisher based in Pakistan, through its Science Alert journal platform.

What subjects does it cover? Applied research across the sciences: agriculture and biology, environmental and earth sciences, engineering and technology, chemistry and materials, applied computing, and applied health topics, among others.

How do I submit a manuscript? Through the Science Alert online submission system as a registered user, with a cover letter included, following the publisher's Guide to Authors for this journal; only submissions made by one of the paper's own authors are accepted.

Is the journal currently indexed in Scopus or Web of Science? Its current active status could not be verified from an authoritative registry during the preparation of this profile; it held index coverage in earlier years. Verify the position for ISSN 1812-5654 in the Scopus source list or the relevant index before relying on indexed status.

Summary

The Journal of Applied Sciences (ISSN 1812-5654 print, 1812-5662 online) is a multidisciplinary applied-research journal published since 2001 by the Asian Network for Scientific Information on the Science Alert platform. Its breadth — from polymer chemistry to clinical biochemistry to machine learning — and its long continuous run make it a significant outlet in its publisher's catalogue, but its generic title demands ISSN-level care from everyone who cites it, submits to it or evaluates it, so that it is not confused with MDPI's Applied Sciences or with the several other similarly named journals in the applied-science literature.